Top 50 Wesley Snipes Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can put a cat in an oven, but that don’t make it a biscuit.”

— Wesley Snipes

2. “So: see ya, and I wouldn’t wanna be ya.”

— Wesley Snipes

3. “I don’t see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.”

— Wesley Snipes

4. “I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.”

— Wesley Snipes

5. “I think I have kind of a natural magnetism.”

— Wesley Snipes

6. “I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It’s like, ‘Bring it on!’”

— Wesley Snipes

7. “You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it’s open season on all suckheads.”

— Wesley Snipes

8. “People wanted to move to America because of Michael Jackson. Industry changed, the music industry changed, because of Michael Jackson. That’s a gift to us, and, you know, I am concerned that the Good Lord may not send another one because we did not take good care of him.”

— Wesley Snipes

9. “I like to read about different religions – Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.”

— Wesley Snipes

10. “Nobody wants to get locked up, although ‘locked up’ is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.”

— Wesley Snipes

11. “I was never charged with tax evasion. I’ve never been a tax protester.”

— Wesley Snipes

12. “I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!”

— Wesley Snipes

13. “I was very short when I was little, so I probably had – and there may be a residue of it now – that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.”

— Wesley Snipes

14. “Lot of the scripts I’ve been in with other non-white actors haven’t been great. Lot of non-white actors ain’t all that great.”

— Wesley Snipes

15. “A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.”

— Wesley Snipes

16. “I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese – big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I’m eating grilled cheese sandwiches and French fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.”

— Wesley Snipes

17. “Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.”

— Wesley Snipes

18. “I didn’t defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.”

— Wesley Snipes

19. “A lot of people now don’t know I’ve been on Broadway.”

— Wesley Snipes

20. “I mainly buy books in my free time.”

— Wesley Snipes

21. “My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.”

— Wesley Snipes

22. “If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.”

— Wesley Snipes

23. “I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.”

— Wesley Snipes

24. “Well, I’m an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.”

— Wesley Snipes

25. “My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.”

— Wesley Snipes

26. “I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.”

— Wesley Snipes

27. “I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.”

— Wesley Snipes

28. “I’ve been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.”

— Wesley Snipes

29. “I’m proud to be an American. I’m proud to be an African American in America. I’ve had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.”

— Wesley Snipes

30. “I’ve reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.”

— Wesley Snipes

31. “I don’t like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.”

— Wesley Snipes

32. “I’ve been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother’s advice: If you have nothing good to say, don’t say anything at all.”

— Wesley Snipes

33. “I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it’s the foundation upon which this country was built.”

— Wesley Snipes

34. “I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they’re in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don’t have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.”

— Wesley Snipes

35. “The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.”

— Wesley Snipes

36. “In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.”

— Wesley Snipes

37. “There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I’m bringing all of that to an action movie.”

— Wesley Snipes

38. “I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.”

— Wesley Snipes

39. “There’s a lot of great stuff on television and that’s very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you’re always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.”

— Wesley Snipes

40. “I come out of repertory theatre so I’ve been working under pressure my whole career.”

— Wesley Snipes

41. “No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.”

— Wesley Snipes

42. “I’ve always been paying my taxes and I’ve always been trying to comply.”

— Wesley Snipes

43. “Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.”

— Wesley Snipes

44. “I’m a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.”

— Wesley Snipes

45. “In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you’ve got to film it. It’s a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.”

— Wesley Snipes

46. “Internationally, I have as large of a fan base – if not larger – than I have domestically.”

— Wesley Snipes

47. “There is a bit of arrogance with ‘Hollywood’ types that doesn’t sit well with game developers.”

— Wesley Snipes

48. “I didn’t go into this business to do action because I’m a classically trained actor. But I’m good at kicking and punching.”

— Wesley Snipes

49. “I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.”

— Wesley Snipes

50. “I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.”

— Wesley Snipes